Sweeping compound.



JOHN STOL'TEN'BERG, OF DURANT, IOWA.

SWEEPING COMPOUND.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 21, 1908.

Application filed July 1,1907. Serial No. 381.788.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHN STOLTENBERG, a citizen of the United States, residing in Durant, in the county of Cedar and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sweeping Compounds; and I do hereby declare the following to'be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

This invention is designed to take the place of the sawdust ordinarily spread over the surface of rooms prior to the sweeping thereof. When sawdust is so employed it is reuired to be moistened in order to collect t ie dirt and absorb the particles of dust.

The object of this invention is to dispense with the employment of wet sawdust at present used as a dust absorbent and to provide a sweeping compound which will render the work of sweeping dustless and be equally well adapted to the sweeping of carpets and bare floors and surfaces and possesses perfect cleaning characteristics.

My improved dust absorbent is composed of sawdust, petroleum, turpentine, lime water and a trace of carbolic acid, which inredients are thorou hly intermixed formm a heavy and sli ht y adhesive compound.

n carrying out t 1e invention, the elements are mixed in-the proportion of two pounds of sawdust, poundv of petroleum pound of turpentine, pound of lime water and a trace of carbolic acid.

l or a mixture of the compound weighing approximately two hundred and ten ounds the proportions of the ingredients use would be about as follows: sawdust 160 pounds, petroleum 20 pounds, turpentine 20 ounds, ime water 10 pounds, to all of which 18 added a half pound or less of carbolic acid. After these ingredients have been thoroughly intermixed there-will be produced a somewhat moist and adhesive compound which is free to be scattered over the surface to be swept;

Either crude petroleum or kerosene may be used in the preparation of the 'sweepin compound, and when thus prepared it will readily absorb all particles of dust during the operation of sweeping the carpet or floor over which it has been strewn, thus permit ting of an absolutely dry and dustless sweep- Ilaving thus described the invention, what v is claimed as new and is desired to be protected by Letters Patent is- A dustless sweeping compound comprising a mixture of sawdust, petroleum, tux entine', lime water and carbollc acid, the w ole being intermixed in about the proportions set forth.

In testimony whereof I have afiixed my J. A; HANLEY, E. L. GILBERT. 

